On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 21:00 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 08:17 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> > So is there a utility that can move the front of a physical volume
> > partition? (gparted and fdisk apparently can't).
>
> [...]
> Another probably much safer solution would be:
>
>
On 02/21/2011 09:17 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I'm not positive this would work and it certainly isn't elegant but...
>
> Could you just:
> - Create a partition in the space preceding the current partition
> - Add the partition to the existing vg
> - Allocate those extents to the current lv
> - Ex
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 08:17 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>> I deleted the partition immediately in front of an LVM physical volume.
>> I'd like to use the freed space as part of the LVM volume group. I know
>> I could create a new partition in the s
On 02/21/2011 08:17 PM, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I deleted the partition immediately in front of an LVM physical volume.
> I'd like to use the freed space as part of the LVM volume group. I know
> I could create a new partition in the same place, make it a physical
> volume and add it to the grou
I deleted the partition immediately in front of an LVM physical volume.
I'd like to use the freed space as part of the LVM volume group. I know
I could create a new partition in the same place, make it a physical
volume and add it to the group, but because the space is contiguous, I
wondered if it